Vers un effet de traitement paradoxal: les fablabs comme facilitateurs «accidentels » de l’entrepreneuriat des utilisateurs

Stéphane Saldago and Cyrielle Vellera
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Stéphane Saldago: TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse
Cyrielle Vellera: TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse

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Abstract: This research aims to shed light on the facilitating role of non-commercial, open-access fablabs in commercial entrepreneurship, particularly for innovations emanating from less conventional entrepreneurial figures: users. In this perspective, qualitative interviews were conducted with users-innovators/users-entrepreneurs on the one hand, and fab managers on the other. Using a process-based analysis approach ("from maker to market"), three key contributions are proposed: (1) fablabs are facilitators of user entrepreneurship but the resulting "treatment effect" is limited, and sometimes even counterproductive; (2) commercially oriented entrepreneurship is contrary to the culture of fablabs, inducing an ambivalent "treatment effect"; (3) fablabs' action capabilities tend to transform towards "accidental" pre-incubation. These results enrich two theoretical fields: user entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in fablabs and provide new elements to support user entrepreneurship and to better identify the postures and capacities for action of fablabs in this field.

Keywords: User-innovators; User-entrepreneurs; Entrepreneuring; Fablab; Makers; Treatment Effect; Utilisateurs-innovateurs; Utilisateurs-entrepreneurs; Entrepreneuring; Fablab; Makers; Effet de traitement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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Published in Innovations - Revue d'Economie et de Management de l'Innovation, 2024, vol.2 (n°74), pp.183-210. ⟨10.3917/inno.pr2.0167⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/inno.pr2.0167

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